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...Although our strategy stopped viral replication in the laboratory, it is far too early to say how it will work in patients," Chow said in a statement. "But in the laboratory, it seems to work better than conventional combination therapy...
Safety tests on actual AIDS patients won't begin before next year, says Wong-Staal, now at the University of California, San Diego. But if it works for one strain of AIDS, it could be easily modified to work for another -- or any other viral disease, for that matter, from hepatitis to herpes...
...particularly salient characteristic of the Ford years: "The paradise of the flesh was at hand. What had been unthinkable under Eisenhower and racy under ! Kennedy had become, under Ford, almost compulsory." And he remembers all this activity as being comparatively worry-free: "Bodily fluids had no deadly viral dimension in the dear old Ford days; one dabbled and frolicked in them without trying to picture the microscopic galaxies within, the squadrons of spherical space ships knobby with keys for fatally unlocking our cell walls." This stands in contrast not only to the insecure present but also to the staid 19th...
...threatening than a common cold. Her doctor used a computer to analyze the genetic makeup of the aberrant cells and generate a custom-made virus that would search out the wayward tissue. Then the virus would infect the malignant cells, injecting a handful of its own regulatory genes. These viral snippets would reprogram the microscopic tumor's DNA, shutting down its unruly growth pattern and transforming the cancer cells back into healthy ones...
...students, a "viral respiratory infection" means simply this: sniff...